Tag Archives: Biomedical Engineering
M.R.I. Research Center at the Technion
The Technion is home to Northern Israel’s first research MRI. Located in the May-Blum-Dahl Human MRI Research Center, it is a symbol of the Technion’s ongoing commitment to scientific excellence and human health advancement. Until now, Technion researchers had no choice but to visit other facilities to use an MRI scanner — an essential tool… Read More
All Fingers and Thumbs
Finger dexterity is a highly developed skill among humans, and it is essential for an enormous range of activities, including tying shoelaces, typing, playing the piano, and eating with a knife and fork. This ability is based on the unique anatomy of the human hand, but also on complex brain capabilities. The brain controls finger… Read More
Profs. Shulamit Levenberg & Avi Schroeder AIMBE College of Fellows
Technion- Israeli Institute of Technology Professors Shulamit Levenberg and Avi Schroeder were inducted into the AIMBE College Fellows, in a ceremony held in Washington on March 27th. Election to the AIMBE College of Fellows is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to a medical and biological engineer. The College of Fellows is comprised of the… Read More
Healthy Prediction
“My goal is to build novel imaging tools that can visualize the complex biology of inflammation,” says Assistant Professor Katrien Vandoorne, head of the In-Vivo Multimodality Imaging Lab. “Using non-invasive tests to understand the pathological changes that occur in cardiovascular disease and cancer development may give rise to new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches”. Prof. Vandoorne… Read More
New Technology for Growing Printed Tissues for Transplantation
Researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed an innovative technology for growing tissue for transplantation by printing it into a microgel bath as support material. The research, published in Advanced Science, was led by Professor Shulamit Levenberg and her doctoral student Majd Machour from the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering along with… Read More
Designing and Programming Living Computers
Bringing together concepts from electrical engineering and bioengineering tools, Technion and MIT scientists collaborated to produce cells engineered to compute sophisticated functions – “biocomputers” of sorts. Graduate students and researchers from Technion - Israel Institute of Technology Professor Ramez Daniel's Laboratory for Synthetic Biology & Bioelectronics worked together with Professor Ron Weiss from the Massachusetts… Read More
The Path to Healthy Aging
Life expectancy is consistently increasing thanks to progress in health care, science, and technology. However, longer lives have not meant an improved quality of life for the elderly. In response to this important global challenge, the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology has gathered researchers from different faculties in order to establish the Healthy Aging… Read More
Preventing Chemo-Caused Hair Loss
Unprecedented achievements for the Technion - Israel Institite of Technology synthetic biology team at the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, held in Paris from October 26 to 28. The students won a gold medal, were ranked first in the Bio-manufacturing and Measurement categories, and ended in the Top 10 overall. The group are engineering… Read More
Robotic Chemistry: A Significant Step on the Way to Nanoscale Medicine
Researchers at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology have developed an automatic system for the design and preparation of stabilizing materials to produce a “nanometric package” – a platform for delivering drugs to cancer tumors in the body. In an article published in the journal Biomaterials, the researchers report that by using the innovative… Read More
Precision Medicine
This year’s Annual Project Presentation Conference at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology’s Faculty of Biomedical Engineering was awarded to students Maya Almagor and Roni Baron. Under the supervision of Professor Yuval Garini, the two developed a technology for spectral imaging of cancer biopsies for precision medicine. According to the students, “Personalized medicine is… Read More